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sábado, 7 de junho de 2014

On this day in 1956, while visiting the Ritz
Hotel in Paris, Ernest Hemingway was alerted by the staff that he’d had two
trunks stored there since the 1920s, and if he didn’t claim them, they’d be
tossed in the trash. Hemingway was surprised when he claimed the luggage and
found lost manuscripts and notes, some of which would eventually make up A
Moveable Feast, one of the most famous literary memoirs ever.

Remembering the unlikely rescue of
Hemingway’s work gives us a moment to pause and think about all the work by all
the greats that didn’t actually make it. Whether tossed into the fire, stolen,
or just plain lost in a box somewhere, here are a few storied pieces of writing
that we’ll probably never get to read.

Parts two and three of Dead
Souls, Nikolai Gogol

It’s hard to believe that one of the pillars
of Russian literature is actually an unfinished masterpiece, but that’s the
case with Gogol’s classic, which he tossed into the fireplace at the suggestion
of Father Matthew Konstantinovskii.

Herman Melville’s Isle of
the Cross

Melville’s publishers were idiots, because
they rejected this novel by the Moby-Dick author. What exactly happened
to the lost work by one of America’s greatest writers isn’t exactly clear, but
over 150 years later, we’re still pissed off about it.

Marquis de Sade’s
unpublished manuscripts

The son of literature’s most famous creep had
all of his unfinished works tossed into the fire upon his father’s death.

Arthur Rimbaud’s “La Chasse
spirituelle”

Verlaine claimed that “La Chasse spirituelle”
was Rimbaud’s greatest work, and that’s probably why a librarian and an actor
tried, and almost succeeded, in convincing us that
they had discovered it. Sadly, as part of a notebook full of work supposedly
misplaced by one of Rimbaud’s schoolmates, it is lost to time.

James Joyce’s Stephen
Hero

The first half of Joyce’s autobiographical
novel was lost, so if you’re tempted to read what was basically a first draft
for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man today, keep in mind that
it’s an incomplete work.

Walter Benjamin’s
mysterious manuscript

One of the 20th century’s greatest minds
supposedly had a completed manuscript with him in a suitcase when he fled from
the Nazis. Benjamin committed suicide a few weeks later, and nobody knows what
happened to the suitcase.

Sylvia Plath’s second novel

Double Exposure, or Double
Take, unfinished at the time of her death in 1963, was lost sometime around
1970.

A fly by imagination

And life passes so quickly...

Because literature is part of our history.

The main idea of this Blog is spread the habit of reading. Literature is part of our lives. When enter in the Literature world, we read better and we improve our though and imagination.I want, with this, divide a little of my dreams. Is to give opportunity to people read and know about works produced by ancient and contemporary writers, and mainly, myself to be insert in this wonderful world of the Letters.